New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-13

aisle and seated himself with thud az ii ne "ouiu
have said When you want TO go last 10 your han
In less than minute the car was gong IKE inc
wind. 1t rocEed, and swaved, and Jumped ana wait
ing passengers rushed TO tho depot doors a: uisnc
through villages and towns, leaving ther hiRh'
before they could set eyes on IT. - >, 49,.
We have lust passed Pttsford," said Conductor
Houghtaling, watch In hand. In lew minu.es;;
" seventeen miles time, nineteem minutes. IL see9'eo
almost the next moment when he added, Pfouuy
"Weve crossed the Rochester line, twenty-s1 miies
from Canandagna, IN just tWenty-sf minutes, !,
run this road since the first train went over IL,
and never came from Canandagus to Rochester do
quick as that before"
The engineer sac sened up little in going the next
three miles, through the suburbs OF the city, ana inc
car stopped in Rochester depot at o'clock precisely
or Just thirty minutes after leaving Csnandaigua.
The other given In Mr.. Beechor's own wordsi
.The other day lin 1877 ] came through London
vile, Ohio. and I torcibly reminded OF my stay
there when my first trip out West we stopped
late ut night, and spent Sunday there. lhero were
TWO coach LOADS OF and the little two-story pick
tavern Was nearly full when we arrived. Inc nest
they could do tor my brother Charles and myself was
to give us couple OF ehakedowns IN the dining
room. We slept late Sunday morning, buf hnaliy
waking up commenced 10 talk. said charles IL
bet you / can tell what they had at thus hoteI 1or
dinner Yesterday What was II = lie asked Roast
beet, replied basing nv Judgment on stale sort
OF odor that peryaded the room No you 70
Mistaken said he shaking bls head ana snin in
al the covering OF his bed . II Wa mutton we
both stoutly maintained our respective propositions,
and railing vigorous smelling OF orr bed clothes,
found tho landlord had given us couple OF table
cloths tor bedspreads, and Charles had got the NUT
ton cloth and the brei"
WHAT WAS THOUGHT or HIM ~ COLLEGE.
Dr. Erastus f. Marcy, OF No 3DO Fhth-aVe', n
cassmate OF Mr.. Bcochers at Amherst, and one OF
the Amherst Alumni copmteo to attend the funeral
was asked Tor some personal "reminiscences OF the
great preacher. " knew Dir Beecner ihtlmaeIy a.
college" Dr. Marcy said " but have not seen much
ol him since then ] met him occasionally, OF course,
but my profession absorbed me here IN New ork, ana
his carried him of into other ntacies and other re-
| latin II. ut,,r Al mn "a
great ability and remarkable eli tracter. lie was
wears my senior and older than most ot MS class
mates perhaps. From the first he sh0weh strong
head and "a wonderful ability In debating and arguing
with and persadins over the rest Oh us TO his views
He took lead, too in athletic sp0its ana "as i've
active fellow in everything he tired. lie had warm
heart great generosity and impulsvenc-s hnnor ana
wit. Yet he was what one would call good and pure:
Ilo always Impressed me as noble, large DTalhei
man. with strong emotions and qulck feelings, thOu~n
. incapable OF doing a mearness or wrong. t'fhK
even in college looked him mark cd ont tor "A
brilliant career. can not recall now one OF hundred
incidents in which he showed hs generosity ana iorce
and clodurnce but there were hundreds OF them W e
admired aud loved him. In no bad sense he was the
popular man OF the class. have since thonght OF
him a. tho foremost of preachers, the most us
ngul-hcd of Amhcr-ts graduates one OF the greatest
mrn that America has produced.
The Rev. :. Giifard Nelson, the pastor or lTlnty
Baptist Church, Brooklyn, former preacher AZ
Plymouth Bethel gave some little incidents the other
d,v ot his contact with the Plymouth pastor:
Nv rel ons with Mr. Bc,cner while preaching nj
Plymouth Bcthel" he said, " were OF AN incidental
kind Yet there was iusT ration even in meeting him
now and then He was uniiord, kind ami gave me
tao most valuable hints and suggestions. " hen /
went 10 Plvmoath Bethel my friends tod W.. Bcecher
that was a Bapti-t have NJ better friends IN this
/ country than the BAp,ists, sid Nr. R,ccher. And
10 me attrrward he said i like u man who holds
fa 10 truth a. ho it, bat am done with tho con
tioycr-v with vour to!ks. II ever bad one In tact,
that die with Fox and the Anahapt.~t-.'
He understood tuat | chung Tremendously To the
| principles OF my denomination, ana IN h. lose 81
ucs-autry once when hc came down 20 christen tho
Bcfu, babies ne they w-rr called he turned 10 me
after the ceremony and playtuliN insisted that -hOu'd
/ let him do the tor lie Thought me a tiieo-
logical baby / suppose; whIio /, though ardentlY
aimring HIM personally. had my own opinion 81 his
/ thcolp,v | taYc not changed tine opinion. Tut /
revere Ms memoir, as that of the greatest man e. or
/ knew. ;hc gcutlOst ant the most GENIAL
recall n conversation | Rad with him IN hi- own
raror before he took HE rir West ~ ~ lie then
spolr about ii, mouth Church aud tho strange com
position Of it4 mombershl1. believe. he said we
have All denominations ia Plymoutn Church We
nave Con1rceafioualists OF course. Prcsbytcri"ns,
I Ep-capalans Mrthodists Roman Catholics Or those
who have been Blpti-t-. aud know not what Others
Somr from every iod. IL saddcns me nlost OF all
thing-' he added n he had stid 10 - many, when
| think OF what Will become Ct Plymouth Church alter
nv departure Tie sat he spoke II was very
! warm day IN his shirt, trousers and sockIn.- ia
the ni. OF portmauteaue and traps that N'r" repai-
IL. for HE Journey and that tie had hal brought hHO
the pdrOr Tor hir cOnycn ence SUPPOSE, ana A. re
uttered the words he looked down steadily upon the
B1or aud bis great tlcllds dropped ana the shades
crcpt his lace, eloquent as the interpreter u
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